Alessandro Baricco

Alessandro Baricco is one of the most versatile contemporary writers in Italy. Known for his bestselling novels “Castelli di rabbia” (Premio Selezione Campiello and Prix Médicis Étranger in 1991), “Oceano Mare” (Premio Viareggio in 1993) and “Seta” (1996, translated into 16 languages), Baricco also had a prolific career as a television presenter of cultural programs, as a playwright and essayist. His fourth essay “The Barbarians” (2006) dealt with the relationship between writing and the digital cultural revolution. In his latest book “The Game” (2018), Baricco has returned to this theme by broadening the reflection on the impact of the digital revolution on humanistic thought and culture in general. The book represents the intellectual preface to the principles that Baricco applied to the Academy program of the Scuola Holden he founded in 1994 in Turin.